Avaus diagnostic

Turn AI ambition into commercial outcomes.

AI-First Commercial Excellence is the diagnostic Avaus runs with B2B leadership teams to pinpoint where your commercial engine is ready for AI, and where it is quietly losing growth.

  • Built for B2B leadership
  • Run in 3 weeks
  • Boardroom-ready output
Live scorecard
Acme Inc · Mid-year 2026
2.7
Group maturity
Sufficient Develop Blocking
Why this matters now

AI is moving faster than most commercial operating models.

Pilots are everywhere. Impact on the P&L is not. The leaders pulling ahead are the ones who treat AI as a redesign of how revenue gets made, not a tool buy. This diagnostic gives your leadership team a shared scorecard to decide where to invest first.

A common language

Sales, marketing and ops finally argue from the same picture.

An honest baseline

Five maturity levels per capability, scored per segment.

A clear next move

Bottlenecks are visible. Investment cases write themselves.

What we help you build

Three building blocks. One AI-first commercial engine.

Every AI-first commercial organisation we’ve seen rests on the same three pieces. Most companies are missing at least one.

Data intake
Your commercial brain

A live knowledge graph fed by meetings, CRM, content and signals. The shared memory your sellers, marketers and AI all draw from.

The backbone
Your commercial engine, in writing

Plain-text, versioned descriptions of how revenue is made. Machine and human readable. Portable across Salesforce, Microsoft, or any composable stack.

The operating model
A self-reinforcing loop

Humans and AI working as one team. Feedback from the field updates the brain, the brain sharpens the backbone, the backbone guides the next action.

BrainBackboneHumans + AI in the flowfeedback loops back into the Brain
What Avaus does

We put the structures in place, one step at a time.

Not a strategy deck. Not a year-long transformation. Working structures, embedded in your commercial team, that compound from week one.

Examples · First 90 days
See the full framework
  • Meeting transcripts from client calls systematically flow into the knowledge graph, with daily and weekly insight sweeps.
  • 1:1 sales coaching transcripts capture sentiment in the sales floor and how managers actually coach.
  • AI copilots for meeting prep, follow-ups and customer insights, embedded where sellers already work.
  • First version of the commercial backbone written, reviewed and versioned with your leadership team.
How an engagement runs

From kickoff to investment case in three weeks.

  1. Scope

    Pick the business units and segments in scope with leadership.

  2. Score

    Interview, evidence, and rate each capability on a 1 to 5 scale.

  3. Compare

    See where you’re strong, where you’re stuck, and where it hurts.

  4. Decide

    Walk away with a prioritised AI-first ComEx roadmap.

The framework

Plan · Do · Check & Improve.

14 commercial capabilities, grouped into three pillars. Each is described at five maturity levels, from manual to AI-native.

Plan
Where to play

Choose the right markets, ambition and guardrails.

  • 01Opportunity sizing rigor
  • 02ICP and segmentation
  • 03Target-setting and ambition
  • 04GTM and channel strategy
  • 05Commercial and AI risk
  • 06AI governance and responsible use
6 capabilities
Do
How to win

Equip the org to execute with AI in the workflow.

  • 07Org, roles and AI literacy
  • 08Data and tech foundation
  • 09Automation and AI in the workflow
  • 10Sales excellence methodology
  • 11Enablement and coaching
5 capabilities
Check & Improve
Make it last

Measure, scale and learn continuously.

  • 12Performance measurement and attribution
  • 13Scaling and standardization
  • 14Learning loops and roadmap
3 capabilities
Maturity scale

From manual to AI-native.

1
Manual
Ad-hoc, spreadsheet-led, person-dependent.
2
Structured
Defined process, consistent across teams.
3
Data-driven
Decisions backed by reliable, shared data.
4
AI-augmented
AI assists humans in the daily workflow.
5
AI-native
AI is the default; humans supervise and improve.
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